In a two-page picture spread across pages 22 and 23, which was re-produced as a splash online, a series of photos showed workers at a factory that produces lunches for a number of high-street stores.

And they were migrant workers.

And they had bare hands.

Despite there being no laws on the compulsory wearing of gloves, a multitude of other hygiene paraphernalia on display and a reasonable excuse for the bare hands (it makes it easier to feel for foreign objects), Daily Mail readers were having none of it.